Reception of selected texts with the theme of Shoah by students of the lower secondary school

Abstract

The paper presents the rate of reception and interpretation of selected texts on the topic of Shoah by pupils of the lower secondary school in one region of the Czech Republic. The level of reception and interpretation was monitored through a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire contains excerpts from three artistic narratives, in which one line of events of World War II is thematized, and a section in which we follow the basic demographic data on respondents to the research (gender, year that respondents attend, etc.). The research is part of the verification phase, which serves to verify the selection of selected intentional texts on the topic of the Shoah, which we intend to integrate into the monothematic anthology of the Shoah texts, which are intended for all grades of lower secondary schools. For this purpose, the questionnaires differ in the level of the samples included – other samples are intended for respondents from different grades, due to the fact that the reception requirements and the interpretation of texts depend on the receptive and cognitive abilities of pupils in individual grades.